Fearing
surname · Latin script
Meaning: present participle and gerund of fear
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Fearing is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 322K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 13M
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2Mas Fehring
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fearing itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 322K (inferred from the name graph)
1,034 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)present participle and gerund of fear
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fearing counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,034 | 1 in 322K | 1K | Fearing | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 5as Fehring | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | — | 2 | — | — |
1,034 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Paul Fearingb. 1762USAmerican judge (1762-1822)
- Maria Fearingb. 1838USeducator and missionary
- Lillien Blanche Fearingb. 1863USAmerican lawyer and poet (1863–1900)
- Kenneth Fearingb. 1902USPoet and novelist
- Stephen Fearingb. 1963CACanadian musician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,260 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 956 | #24,513 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #257,910 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fearing mean, and where does it come from?
- present participle and gerund of fear Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Fearing have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Fearing, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fearing.
- Where is Fearing most common?
- Fearing is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 322 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Fearing?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,034 people named Fearing in 2010, about 1 in 322 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fearingThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fearing”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.